Chao-Chen Lin

• Leader of Material Characterization Lab • Quantum chemical calculation by Gaussian • Built a regression model to predict the peak wavelength of blue fluorescent emitters (reducing prediction error by 60%) • Molecular dynamics simulation by Schrödinger • Optical simulation by Setfos • OLED device characterization • New molecular design concept to enable a broader range of fluorescent emitters in customer OLED devices • Up to 9-fold device lifetime improvement by material combination

• Built 2 fluorescence microscopes and managed totally 4; laboratory setup after moving from Zürich to Basel • Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, TIRFM, confocal microscopy • Design with AutoCAD and fabrication of multi-layered PDMS-based microfluidic devices • Giant unilamellar vesicle production with emulsion transfer and electroformation • Designed an on-chip assay to study permeation of peptides across lipid membranes, published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2018) • Mentored 3 PhD students

• Built a fluorescence microscope with one- and two-photon excitation capabilities • Simulation of fluorophore distribution and fluorescence decay with Python • Small unilamellar vesicle production by size-exclusion chromatography • Designed a new assay to measure membrane distances regulated by synaptic membrane protein, published in Nature Commun. (2014) • Designed a new on-chip assay to study membrane fusion mediated by synaptic membrane proteins, published in J. Phys. Chem. B (2016)

• Laser spectroscopy: fluorescence upconversion, transient absorption (pump-probe), two-photon absorption • Research on transition metal complexes, photochromism and proton transfer • Published as 2nd author in J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2012, 2011) and as 1st author in J. Phys. Chem. A (2010, 2009) • Published a review on transition metal complexes in Coord. Chem. Rev. (2011)

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) and organic photovoltaics (OPV) device fabrication.

Development of new methods in fluorescence microscopy

Photophysics of transition metal complexes and two-photon absorbing chromophores